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John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 810 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.09 — 383,398 ratings — published 2001
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 567 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.17 — 86,176 ratings — published 2010
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 481 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.17 — 92,721 ratings — published 1992
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 467 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,395 ratings — published 2011
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 467 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.86 — 57,938 ratings — published 2008
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 465 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.05 — 44,218 ratings — published 2012
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 449 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,253 ratings — published 2005
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 370 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.51 — 46,033 ratings — published 2017
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 344 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.22 — 62,641 ratings — published 1979
Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
by (shelved 293 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.19 — 51,707 ratings — published 2001
His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,817 ratings — published 2004
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,064 ratings — published 2009
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 233 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,531 ratings — published 2013
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,248 ratings — published 1997
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.22 — 81,603 ratings — published 2005
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 224 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,913 ratings — published 2008
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 212 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,778 ratings — published 2020
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by (shelved 209 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.44 — 27,447 ratings — published 1982
Mornings on Horseback (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.10 — 36,071 ratings — published 1981
Coolidge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,635 ratings — published 2013
Eisenhower in War and Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.09 — 11,500 ratings — published 2012
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.99 — 13,109 ratings — published 2011
Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.20 — 49,302 ratings — published 1995
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 198 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,913 ratings — published 2015
FDR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,587 ratings — published 2007
Decision Points (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.81 — 42,978 ratings — published 2010
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.21 — 47,323 ratings — published 1994
Wilson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,013 ratings — published 2013
Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3)
by (shelved 171 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,757 ratings — published 2010
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by (shelved 167 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.44 — 24,636 ratings — published 2002
John Quincy Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,932 ratings — published 2012
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,961 ratings — published 1997
Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,725 ratings — published 1959
James Madison: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,509 ratings — published 1971
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, The Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,776 ratings — published 2008
Martin Van Buren (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,941 ratings — published 2005
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
by (shelved 147 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.29 — 28,198 ratings — published 1990
The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
by (shelved 146 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.41 — 20,204 ratings — published 2012
James Madison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,671 ratings — published 2011
Benjamin Harrison (The American Presidents, #23)
by (shelved 135 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,075 ratings — published 2005
Zachary Taylor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,326 ratings — published 2008
Warren G. Harding (The American Presidents, #29)
by (shelved 131 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,383 ratings — published 2004
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.84 — 171,287 ratings — published 2006
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,511 ratings — published 2009
My Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.74 — 50,355 ratings — published 2004
John Tyler, the Accidental President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,496 ratings — published 2006
Franklin Pierce (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,964 ratings — published 2010
The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,912 ratings — published 2017
Richard Nixon: The Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as presidents)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,728 ratings — published 2017
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as presidents)
avg rating 3.94 — 233,012 ratings — published 1995
“During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate trial of the president—only the second impeachment hearing in American history—you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down) by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare to say that at least I saw it through.”
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
“The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.”
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